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Bob Marley - Selassie is the Chapel

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The Commodores - Nightshift

The Hoppers - What A Lovely Name

Waylon Jennings - You Ask Me To
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Dottie Rambo & Dolly Parton-Stand By The River

Heartbreak Ridge & New Hope Road

Somebody Loves Me

"Somebody Loves Me" By Reggie & Ladye Smith/Wesley Pritchard

The Prodigal Son

"This Old House" By The Cathedrals

Vestal Goodman & Dottie Rambo-The Holy Hills Of Heaven

VESTAL GOODMAN "What a lovely name"

Wouldn't Take Northin' For My Journey Now
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Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers - Islands in the stream

"Yes, I Am" By The Hoppers
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Jimmy Swaggart Ministries: Easter Morning Service 2008
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Waylon Jennings

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Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter - Storm Never Last

Waylon Jennings - This Time
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Gaither (Rivers of Joy) - Dwelling In Beulah Land

Gaither (Toronto) - When I Get Carried Away

"I'll Fly Away" By Kim Hopper and David Phelps

Jerusalem - (The Hoppers)

"Satisifed" By Kim Hopper/Amy Lambert/Sonya Isaacs

"Shoutin Time In Heaven" By The Hoppers

"The Lifeboat" With David Phelps And Vestal Goodman

About watkins1951

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Jun 29, 2009

Date Joined

Feb 13, 2008

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A Pennsylvania born woman, named after her grandmother's Rosie (CAROLINE) Miles Crance, and Etta Briggs Watkins Crowell. I can trace my family, both Crance and Watkins to the American Revolution. I am deeply interested in the veterans of the Civil War. For years I looked for William Miles, my mother's grandfather, Rosie's father, in every Civil War Index and archive I could find. Family legend said he was a Civil War Veteran. Rosie Miles Crance, married Robert Crance a Tannery worker in Elkland, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Mother was born in Elkland, on the historic Cabbage Row, a row of houses built for tannery workers. I know that William Miles' gravestone was paid for by the Veterans of America. I found the American Census where he stated he was a General Farmer and a Union Soldier. A huge sigh of relief. What would I have done if he had been a Confederate? Years ago I put the 1890 War Of the Rebellion, an 1890 Census for Civil War Veterans on a computer disc for my home County Historical Society, Potter County, Pennsylvania. I do not know what ever became of it. A truly interesting document. This was an Actuary Document. This document took in every state that had fought in the Civil War. The government wanted to know what sort of health men that had fought in the Civil War were in. This would tell them how much longer pensions would be needed. Every soldier claimed illness's from wartime, sun exhaustion was the most common, also listed were gunshot wounds, lost arms and legs. To the current now crazy, plus a multitude of other current illness such as heart or kidney disease. Listed were military units and ranks. I also found that there were in Potter County, Pennsylvania, CSA's; Confederate State Army Soldiers. I am deeply interested in Mary Todd Lincoln a much maligned person, Abraham Lincoln's wife a Southern woman in a Northern world. The time was a time when South and North were fighting. I find her woman in a difficult position. Her official biographer treats her poorly. The people we in todays world count on to tell us about her, are her husband's law partner, in Springfield, Illinois, Billy Herndon. A man known to dislike Mrs. Lincoln and those Lincoln Brats, as he called them. The Lincoln sons, were four in all Robert, Eddie, Willie, Taddie . Later on two young male secretaries that were with Mr. Lincoln during the Washington, DC, White House years. Years of Civil War and the loss of a second child, son Willie died of typhoid fever. It was thought he had developed this fever while playing near the Potomac. Eddie had died in Springfield, Illinois, years earlier. Son Robert was sent off to war, to be with General Grant. Robert T. Lincoln and was on the porch the day General Lee and General Grant signed the documents that ended the Civil War, or as it is called the War of the Rebellion. We know Robert later became a Railroad Boss, he was at the Pullman Strike and took over the Pullman Coaches after the Strike and the retirement of George Pullman. Robert T. Lincoln is considered by many to be the most successful of Presidential children, the second being President Taft's son a Senator, the third James Webb Hayes, founder of Union Carbide Corportation, the child of our 19th President Rutherford B. Hayes. Another of Robert's distinctions was being at the asassination of three President's. He was at the bedside of his Father, Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of the United States, after his shooting. He was there when Garfield was shot and at the McKinley shooting. Robert T. Lincoln was the only one of the children of Mary and Abraham Lincoln to survive to adulthood. Taddie the youngest died in Illinois, after his Father's death. Abraham Lincoln entrusted his first inauguration speech to his oldest son Robert, a Harvard student. He was to carry the gripsack that held his Father's speech from Springfield to Washington, DC. Somewhere along the way he handed the valise to a porter and forgot about it. It was up to Father Abraham and Ward Lamont to go to the hotel and find the gripsack in the hotel luggage room. Robert later stated Father never was angry with me; Ward Lamont said he never saw Lincoln that angry. Robert was called BOB by his father, Robert by all others. In later years Robert the only surviving child of Mary and Abraham Lincoln would quarrel with his mother most harshly. After Lincoln's death Mary wrote of her grief in a letter to Elizbeth Blair Lee dated August 25, 1865, Time does not soften it, nor can I ever be reconciled to my loss, until the grave closes over the rememberance, and I am again reunited with him. Mary Lincoln lived another 18 years after her husband's death.
Part of My favorite Lincoln poem;
A lonesome train on a lonesome track --
Seven coaches painted black --
They carried Mr. Lincoln down,
The train started - the wheels went round -
You could hear that whistle for miles around
Crying, Freedom! Freedom!

Age

Hometown

Ulysses,

Country

United States

Occupation

Self - employed in the Recycle Business

Companies

Crance Watkins Recycling --- Since 2004

Interests

Civil War, The Lincolns, Recycling,

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